The Ottoman Empire
Subtitle: the classical age, 1300-1600
By: Halil Inalcik ; translated by Norman Itzkowitz and Colin Imber.
Series: Late Byzantine and Ottoman studies -- 1.
Publisher: A. Caratzas
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New Rochelle, N. Y
Language: eng; tur
Number of pages: 257
Subjects: Turkey -- History -- 1288-1453.; Turkey -- History -- 1453-1683.
Description: A preeminent scholar of Turkish history vividly portrays 300 years of this distinctively Eastern culture as it grew from a military principality to the world's most powerful Islamic state. He paints a striking picture of the prominence of religion and warfare in everyday life, as well as the traditions of statecraft, administration, social values, financial, and land policies. "...masterly...Halil Inalcik is one of the foremost living students of Ottoman history...Read this book..."--Times Literary Supplement.
Notes: Errata slip inserted.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 233-248.